Chapter 384 – The Honorable One of Chaos.

The time of one month passed really quickly and slowly.

“Hey! Kid! Move this!”
“All right!”

The boy started helping the troupe in earnest, not just running errands. As the work became more and more complicated, when there was a play, I passed the afternoon without noticing the passing of time, but by the time evening came, the time that had passed so quickly slowed down as if it had stopped.

“What is he doing now?”

He was busy from afternoon to evening, but after that, he had almost no work, so even the slightest void formed in his mind was immediately filled with the image of the girl.

“I won’t even tell you my name.”

She said she taught it herself, but she kept awake at night trying to figure out what her name was. The promised day finally arrived in the midst of repeated stretches and contractions like a rubber band.

“…Didn’t you come?”

The boy snooped near the waiting room of an actress named Lia, whom she always met. She didn’t specifically decide to meet her here, but she instinctively came to the place where she first met her and was waiting for her. However, despite the passage of time, he became uneasy at the appearance of a girl he rarely saw.

‘It’s just a bit late.’

It was when I muttered that to myself and waited a little longer.

“What are you doing here?”

Suddenly, a voice came towards him, as if he had heard it somewhere. When the boy turned his head to look at her in surprise, sure enough, there was the woman, Lia, who was probably on the other side of the door he and the girl had been peeping at, bending her knees and looking down at him.

“Do troupes use these things as workers?”

Even behind her was the man Cathy, who had also been seen through the door.

“No. Maybe on the other extreme… Huh?!”

Before the boy could finish talking, the boy quickly raised his body from the crouch and ran past them. He kept running, just in case he didn’t want them to find out that he had been here.

“What?! What if it pops out of nowhere!”

I was surprised by the voice I heard at the moment and turned around to see a girl standing in the hallway next to me. She glanced back to see them no longer, but just in case, she grabbed her hand.

“Nyan?! What…!”
“I’ll explain later, so let’s go quickly!”

The girl asked in an embarrassed voice, but as he led her by the hand, she ran after him as if she couldn’t help it. And the place we arrived was outside the theater.

“What happened to the potato, why did you run away like this?”

Haha, the girl asked without a sign of exhaustion even while he was breathing heavily.

“Whoa, I got caught out there.”
“Oh, really?!”

The boy caught her breath at the sight of the girl’s astonishment as she pulled up her white tail.

“It’ll be fine for now. It’s not like I was spying there.”
“Is that a good thing…”

If you’re looking for him, he’ll usually find you inside the theater, so if you come out, there’s no problem. Even if someone else finds it, once the play starts, people don’t think about coming out because they’re focused on the play.

“I came out because I didn’t know, is it okay?”

As he held out her hand to her again, which she had let go while catching her breath, her girl hesitated and took his hand. So he started walking around the neighborhood with the girl.

“By the way, what are you planning to play with?”
“Uh, well?”
“It’s like I didn’t even think of that.”

The problem was that once they came out of the theater, there wasn’t much they could do by themselves. But that was pretty good.

“Nyan! Look at that! It’s so big!”

As if she had been disappointed, the girl jumped excitedly, pointing from her leg to one of the many fish swimming in the large waterway she saw on her way. She followed her fingertips, and at a glance she was swimming so leisurely that she thought she could catch a fish as big as them if she reached out to the water’s edge.

“You really want to raise a fish like that!”

Come to think of it, I had heard that Cattsy especially liked fish. Perhaps the girl had a similar reason, and she glanced around her canal, her slope was rather high, but there were many grooves for her feet, and she seemed to be able to make it down.

“Then can I catch you?”
“Really?”
“Because I caught a lot of similar things.”

The girl seemed surprised to open her eyes and see him, but she was confident with the boy. Well, even when he lived on the outskirts with his mother, he remembered going to the water’s edge and sticking his head out to breathe or catching fish a few times up in the trees. Still, they used to catch mice because it was not easy to catch because they immediately hid in the water and ran away.

‘Why don’t they even think of running away?’

The leisurely swim seemed easy enough to catch, but I never thought he wouldn’t budge when he came right next to me. The fish he had caught so far were so sensitive that they ran away before he even got close to him, but only the fins swayed slowly as if moving was annoying.

“I got it… Done!”

He didn’t miss his chance and grabbed the guy’s slippery torso and lifted him up. But what the boy didn’t expect was that he was as heavy as he was.

-Slap!
“Evil!?”

Because of its size, it easily escaped his touch just by writhing lightly, and of course got hit in the face by his tail fin. With a splash! Because of this, the boy stumbled and fell into the waterway.

“Are you okay?!”

Fortunately, the water was not very deep, so he was able to get out by lightly touching the ground with his hand, but when he heard the voice in front of him, he looked up and the girl looked at him with worried eyes, as if he had come down the waterway before he knew it.

“It’s nothing.”
“Isn’t it a big deal? I heard that the fish hit the cheek straight.”
“Ugh! Why are you watching that?”
“Gigkick, I’m normally good at anything.”

He hated the girl teasing him when he grumbled, but they were laughing at each other before he knew it. Even though he was like a wet mouse, he didn’t care and went back with her. Occasionally, people’s gazes gathered, but it was only for a moment, so there was no need to care.

“Freshly picked grapes! We also sell cool carnac!”

Then the girl stopped, pricking up her ears, at the sound of the salesman’s solicitation.

“Do you want to drink that?”

Following her gaze, she saw that a large clear glass barrel was filled with a clear purple liquid, like bunches of grapes stuck in it.

“What do you want to drink…”
“Wait a minute.”

But he was already on his way there before the girl had finished her words.

“Mister, how much is a glass of carnac?”
“You’re a little guest. It’s like 3 fairy tales in one cup.”
“Here you go.”

It was close, but fortunately I had enough money to live on. It was thanks to her saving up what her mother sometimes gave her as pocket money. When I hold a large cup to the faucet attached to the bottom of the glass and press it, the grapes pour out with a popping sound and fill the cup.

“Now, here you go. Return the cup when you’re done.”
“Yes.”

Just like that, holding a cup full of carnac until it overflowed, she waved her remaining hand, and the girl approached.

“Nya, even if you don’t go that far…”
“It’s because I want to drink. It’s good to drink together.”

As she approached him on her own, she grunted, but didn’t seem to notice her own tail wagging. She first gave her girl a big cup and she tilted her cup and tasted it, then gulp and gulp and kyaa! She exhaled.

“It’s delicious!”
“How delicious is it?”
“Try to eat it yourself!”

The girl took the cup she held out to him again, took a sip, and was surprised by the sweet scent of her grapes that wet her mouth. In addition, the taste of the chewy grape skins and soft grapes that were mixed sparsely was more delicious than expected. So he and the girl drank all the carnac on the spot until they ate the remaining grape skins.

“Today was so much fun!”

Even after that, they wandered around and looked at this and that, only returning to the theater when it was getting dark.

“I didn’t do much.”

The boy scratched his cheek in embarrassment at the girl smiling at him as if he was having fun. Well, after they drank the carnac, there was nothing they could do with money. Even if they smelled other delicious things or saw interesting things to do, they could only watch.

‘I should have gotten more pocket money from my mom.’

Every time that happened, I thought about it and felt sad. If she had known this would happen, she should have taken more when her mother said she would give it.

“Hee hee, didn’t we forget something more than that?”

Only then did the boy remember the promise he had made a month ago. Come to think of it, they still didn’t know each other’s names. It was so much fun just to walk around together that I forgot about it.

“I’ll teach you now. You have to listen carefully.”
“Yes.”

It was the time when she blushed and listened to her actions as she approached him and spoke in a whisper until their breaths touched each other.

“My name is…”

But he couldn’t hear what was next.

– Bahah!

What came instead was a girl’s face full of pain and astonishment that rang in her head.